The “Tiny Store” Post Went “Canonsburg Viral”!

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Many thanks to my Canonsburg Friends who visited portfoliolongo.com yesterday to view the Tiny Store post. The guy in the stats department had to borrow a step ladder just to keep up. Memory Lane is being widened and renamed to Memory Boulevard.

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What’s the big statistical deal?
The Tiny Store post registered 396 views on Jan. 20, 2015, something very unusual for this illustroblog! That’s well over ten times the average number of daily views. Incidentally, the previous daily high was 143 views on Sept. 14, 2014 for this post; but, who’s counting?

The Tiny Store in Canonsburg, PA

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Except for Marcantonio’s on the corner of Murdock St. and Hutchinson Ave., run by Guiseppe “Chipazeek” Marcantonio, and the little store on Iron St. run by Sam “Shy” Benowitz, the Tiny Store on Pike St. in my hometown of Canonsburg, PA, was my introduction to commerce…and candy. The folks who worked there were like family; in fact, one of the butchers, Mario DiSalle was my cousin through his wife, Lena! Sadly, the Tiny Store closed its doors in 2013.

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As usual, I used a photo as a reference to do a quick, rough, free-hand, side by side rendering in Procreate. Check out the progress video (short time lapse) done in Procreate.

 

Couple Foggy Nights Ago in Merced

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couple foggy nights ago

Pucker Danny – Updated: Now includes an 18-sec., silent PhotoSpeak animation.

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Technical: Here’s another one in Procreate (iPad) done by using a photo reference to guide a free-hand, side-by-side drawing, this time of Danny DeVito, puckering somewhat, well, not as much as he’s puckering in this photo.

See progress video.